INFLUENZA

Hokitika Guardian, 7 January 1927, Page 1

INFLUENZA

SWELLING MANY CITIES. [Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.] LONDON, Jan. o. The influenza epidemic is so drastic in the Al Oll l jiol 1 ier district of Franco that the bodies of the dead arc being buric dwithout coffins, the supply of which are inadequate for the victims. At Bordeaux the deaths average 40 daily. The whole town of Wisenthal. in Eouth Baden, Germany, is crippled owing to the influenza infection. The medical authorities in Madrid declare that the outbreak is traceable to the Christmas festivities, and as a consequence of the kissing and handshaking. In Brussels flic epidemic lias assumed an alarming character. The disease takes the form of a seizure in the street, the victims having difficulty in breathing. It is practically impossible there to obtain medical assistance. There are six hundred hospital eases of influenza in Geneva, where the authonteis have turned the military barracks into an emergency hospital. Half of the staff of the League of Nations Secretariat is stricken, and the reopening of the Geneva schools and the university lias been postponed indefinitely.